Open space may refer to:
- In urban planning and conservation ethics
- Landscape, areas of land without human-built structures
- Open space reserve, areas of protected or conserved land on which development is indefinitely set aside
- Urban open space, urban areas of protected or conserved land on which development is indefinitely set aside
- Greenway (landscape), a linear chain of open space reserves or a recreational corridor through the same
- Public space, areas left open for the use of the public, such as a piazza, plaza, park, and courtyard
- In business terminology
- A procedure for conducting a business conference:
- Open Space Technology
- Open-space meeting
- Other uses
- Open Space (band), an indie rock band from Minsk, Belarus
- Open Space (BBC TV) BBC TV programme produced by their Community Programme Unit
- Open Space Theatre, a defunct London theatre run by Charles Marowitz
- Open Space (publications), a music publishing collective
Famous quotes containing the words open and/or space:
“Wild Bill was indulging in his favorite pastime of a friendly game of cards in the old No. 10 saloon. For the second time in his career, he was sitting with his back to an open door. Jack McCall walked in, shot him through the back of the head, and rushed from the place, only to be captured shortly afterward. Wild Bill’s dead hand held aces and eights, and from that time on this has been known in the West as “the dead man’s hand.””
—State of South Dakota, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“But alas! I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises, that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)